The PEOPLE v. Brown

Defendant, Johnnie Brown, was found guilty of rape at a bench trial in the criminal court of Cook County. After •judgment he was sentenced to a term of 15 years in the penitentiary. For a reversal of said judgment he now urges that the evidence was insufficient to show his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.

It appears from the evidence that on the evening of April 10, 1961, Lilly Mae Thomas attended services at a church near 63 rd Street and Cottage Grove Avenue in Chicago, departed for her home at approximately 1 :oo o’clock in the morning, took an elevated train to downtown Chicago,…